Ebola in Africa - Discoveries in the past decade
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Ebola virus outbreaks in Africa: past and present.
Ebola haemorrhagic fever (EHF) is a zoonosis affecting both human and non-human primates (NHP). Outbreaks in Africa occur mainly in the Congo and Nile basins. The first outbreaks of EHF occurred nearly simultaneously in 1976 in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC, former Zaire) and Sudan with very high case fatality rates of 88% and 53%, respectively. The two outbreaks were caused by ...
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عنوان ژورنال: Eurosurveillance
سال: 2002
ISSN: 1560-7917
DOI: 10.2807/esm.07.03.00342-en